{"id":2184,"date":"2016-05-10T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content\/img\/thumbs\/logo.jpg"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:04:17","slug":"contribution-of-the-women-advocacy-group-wag-for-the-2016-ecprogress-report-on-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/contribution-of-the-women-advocacy-group-wag-for-the-2016-ecprogress-report-on-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribution of the Women Advocacy Group (WAG) for the 2016 ECProgress Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">General comments:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In accordance with the newly adopted EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2020      gender should be more considered throughout the Progress Report not only within      the traditional sections such as Political criteria and Human rights; <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Although provided &nbsp;in the relevant      national regulation, the dialog among the citizens, CSOs and the government      on policy and legislative development and implementation processes still remains      closed what negatively affects marginalized groups, and mostly women,      especially socially marginalized women (women in rural areas, single      mothers, women with disabilities, LBT*Q women and other; <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Gender impact assessments of policy and legislative processes are      not implemented although regulated; policy makers continuously ignore this      obligation thus contributing toward further women inequality in the      society; In implementing the reform processes in the area of social,      health care, economic reforms&nbsp; and      other rights the state is introducing austerity measures that mostly      affect marginalized groups, particularly women. Prior to introducing      austerity measures, state representatives fail to consult women experts in      relevant fields, which clearly sends the message that women\u2019s voices are      not welcome and appreciated. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Implementation of BIH Anti-Discrimination legislation, such as BIH      Law on Prohibiting Discrimination, Gender Equality Law and Law on      Combating Domestic Violence of FBIH are not fully implemented, monitored, and      reported; Statistical and other data collected during the implementation      of these laws are not sufficient, adequate and relevant in order to      determine \/ evaluate the impact of these laws on marginalized groups, and      women in particular.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Political and public participation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Women and women\u2019s COS are excluded from reforms process e.g. Reform      Agenda developed within the EU Accession Process and related discussions,      negotiation with international financial institutions, etc.; Women\u2019s needs      and priorities are neither recognized nor included in the country\u2019s reform      processes, <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Election Law \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">The Inter-sectoral working group <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">on the BiH Election Law<\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> has suggested abolishing the      stipulations of the Election Law on compulsory alternating allocation of      female candidates on electoral lists. Formally, the gender quota of 40 %      remains in the law, but with this change, in practice, female candidates      in almost all political parties would be positioned at the bottom of the      lists thus severely undermining their ability to be elected. Therefore, if      adopted, this amendment would lead to further decline in the number of      elected women in legislative bodies.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Women are still underrepresented in expert and governing bodies of      public companies, state agencies and other institutions while remaining mainly      on administrative and staff positions; State is continuing to violate the      BiH Gender Equality Law on obligation to secure 40% gender quota. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Gender Based Violence (GBV)\/ Violence against Women&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Relevant legislation is still not harmonised with the Istanbul      Convention (e.g. Criminal Code, Domestic Violence Law).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;Entities\u2019 Domestic Violence      Law(s) remain non harmonised contributing to legal insecurity of citizens;      Statistics data are still not sufficient and adequate to provide enough      insight in the law implementation, enabling State to develop functional      policy response to GBV; there are no institutional departments specialised      for GBV cases (e.g. departments in police, prosecutors, courts, health institutions,      etc.) <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Federation Domestic Violence Law is partially implemented and      relevant bylaws are still not adopted. With resent proposed amendments to      Domestic Violence Law the Federation Ministry of Justice is undermining      current shelter system run by women CSOs. Lack of adequate budget for full      implementation of current relevant legislation has caused closure of one      safe house in Mostar, FBiH and has brought other houses on the edge of      survival. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Law on Victims of Torture has not been adopted yet; women victims of      war do not enjoy the same status in BiH entities.<strong><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">State continues to violate its legislation, denying access to      justice and support for victims of GBV. Access to free legal aid and court      representation is very limited, if existing at all, while information on      existing legal aid centres are not sufficient. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bosnia      and Herzegovina remains a country of origin, transit and destination for      human trafficking for labor exploitation, sexual exploitation, begging and      forced marriages.&nbsp;The number of identified victims of human      trafficking has increased threefold, of which 80% of victims are women and      girls.&nbsp;Changes to the Criminal Code that would ban all forms of human      trafficking in accordance with national legislation and the acquis are not      brought in FBiH, which prevents the country to prosecute the crimes of      trafficking.&nbsp;Persons suspected of trafficking are prosecuted only for      the crimes of &#8220;incitement to prostitution&#8221; or &#8220;child      neglect&#8221;.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The economic exploitation and begging of women and children is      widespread in the country but also outside the borders of BIH. In a recent      joint operation of Bosnian and French investigators code-named      &#8220;CD&#8221;, 22 children were found in a private house in Zenica, whose      mothers had been blackmailed and who were the victims of organized crime      and human trafficking for labour exploitation, theft and begging on the      territory of France. Two Bosnian civil servants and an employee of the BiH      consular representation in Paris were among the arrested in this Action on      suspicion of being involved In human trafficking. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Poor and non-harmonised penal policy, long court procedures, low      penalties imposed by the courts lead further to impunity of these crimes.      Feticide is still underreported although present in public and media.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<strong>Policy reforms on employment and social policy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The trend of low participation of women at the labour market      continues; women work more in grey economy; women are still in majority      amon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">g unpaid      family workers<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, etc. The State is continuously failing to      provide adequate institutional support to working mothers and mothers      seeking employment (e.g. not enough kindergartens, etc). The collapse of      the public transportation system, especially in rural areas, mainly      affects women and women\u2019s mobility, especially affecting women with      disabilities in accessing rights to work and other related rights;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The reform of social protection does not include gender impact      assessment; according to available information, austerity measures and      budget savings affect women mostly (e.g. foster care, family pensions whose      beneficiaries are mostly women); There are still no policy and legislative      decisions or implementation of paid parental leave; funds for those      payments are not secured. In FBiH, employed women while on maternity leave      are treated as beneficiaries of social protection and paid through cantonal      budgets; and, not as beneficiaries of the social insurance schemes      accessing rights based on employment and paid by existing health insurance      funds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">All children      in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not covered by compulsory health insurance      and the regression of these rights as well as exclusion of marginalized      groups, Roma and other social<\/span><span lang=\"EN\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">categories has      been recorded in some cantons.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Reports prepared by:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">PRAVA ZA SVE, Sarajevo <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ICVA&nbsp; (Inicijativa i civilna Akcija), Sarajevo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Udru\u017eenje \u201cZemlja djece u BiH\u201d, Tuzla<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fondacija Udru\u017eene \u017eene, Banja Luka<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fondacija Lokalne Demokratije, Sarajevo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fondacija CURE, Sarajevo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u017dene \u017denama, Sarajevo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Centar za pravnu pomo\u0107 \u017eenama, Zenica<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Udru\u017eenje Gra\u0111ana Budu\u0107nost, Modri\u010da<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ftn1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General comments: In accordance with the newly adopted EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 gender should be more considered throughout the Progress Report not only within the traditional sections such as Political criteria and Human rights; Although provided &nbsp;in the relevant national regulation, the dialog among the citizens, CSOs and the government on policy and legislative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}